"If you are old enough to remember the first time Trump came to power, then you’ve seen this movie before. During his tenure, President Barack Obama was constantly besieged by the worst pundits in America for his failure to bring Republicans—who were at the time following Mitch McConnell’s monomaniacal pursuit of obstruction at any cost—to the table to support broad bipartisan initiatives."

#Democrats #Republicans #media #CorporateMedia #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MediaFail
/4

"The media will soon be leaving their fetish for bipartisanship, compromise, and comity behind since the only people on whom they ever impose these standards—Democrats—will be out of power."

~ Jason Linkins

#Democrats #Republicans #media #CorporateMedia #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MediaFail
/3

https://newsletter.tnr.com/index.php?action=social&chash=861dc9bd7f4e7dd3cccd534d0ae2a2e9.1147&s=cdd6377d8462caad2b4695418c877aea

"The vast majority of mainstream media pundits, and the most prominent political party analysts are simply ill-equipped to speak or report with knowledge, context, sophistication, or authority about how race shapes American politics and electoral outcomes.

~ Sherrilynn Ifill

And because of this, corporate media are perfectly happy to pave the way for fascism.

#Democrats #Republicans #media #CorporateMedia #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MediaFail
/2

https://sherrilyn.substack.com/p/why-have-race-and-gender-been-erased-b5f

"Like I said, a successful relationship requires reciprocity otherwise it’s simply an exercise in abuse.

After 9 years, I’m done.

I have no desire to reach out to or understand any Trump voter, especially after the 2024 election. I’ve seen enough. They voluntarily chose the most corrupt, dishonest, criminal, unqualified man on Earth to lead the most powerful nation."

#Trump #media #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #Thanksgiving
/2

"They have already dangerously normalized a criminal con man grifter, making him just a coin flip away from the White House.

If Trump regains office, a substantial part of the blame will rest with our media, just as it did in 2016. How they sleep at night knowing this is beyond comprehension."

#Trump #KamalaHarris #media #NewYorkTimes #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #normalization
/16

Todd Beeton cites Stuart Stevens' response to the two New York Times headlines about Trump and Harris that Josh Marshall highlighted yesterday (see /10 in this thread for that graphic). Stevens says,

"These two headlines should be studied in journalism classes for decades.

Trump headline could apply to a Nobel prize winner in genetic studies."

#Trump #KamalaHarris #media #NewYorkTimes #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
/15

https://thinkbigpicture.substack.com/p/harris-trump-media-double-standard

"In the wake of two devastating hurricanes, Helene and Milton, that’s a question we should be asking in context of climate change: What is the cost of failing to address the increasingly dangerous combination of increasing air temperatures, warming waters, and rising sea levels in terms of loss of human life, destruction of property, and the quality of our existence?"

#Trump #KamalaHarris #media #WashingtonPost #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #Helene #Milton #hurricanes #ClimateChange
/13

Mary Trump notes that Washington Post has jumped on Kamala Harris for saying she would like to see Medicare expanded to cover long-term at-home care. WaPo asks where the money will come from.

Mary Trump responds:

"Here’s a question I never hear the corporate media ask: What is the cost of not addressing an issue that affects millions of Americans?"

#Trump #KamalaHarris #media #WashingtonPost #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
/12

https://www.marytrump.org/p/what-it-costs-us?

"We don’t know what kind of malignant sickness is metastasizing throughout the political newsroom at the Times. And we don’t know what’s going to happen on November 5.

But if Kamala Harris loses, the New York Times’s absolute failure to meet the historical moment — not just this year, but ever since 2015 — will be a big part of the story of how the United States of America ended up where it ended up."

#Trump #KamalaHarris #media #NewYorkTimes #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
/11

Evan Hurst writes,

"Josh Marshall tweeted a screengrab last night from the New York Times, saying, 'This arrangement and editorial gloss may stand for, capture the journalism about the entire campaign.'”

The screengrab is below.

#Trump #KamalaHarris #media #NewYorkTimes #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
/10

https://www.wonkette.com/p/new-york-times-pretty-sure-trump

"NY Times finally covers Trump’s dementia but still sanewashes Trump.

The media is failing us!!"

#KamalaHarris #Trump #media #normalization #sanewashing #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence #MediaFail
/2

https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/ny-times-finally-covers-trumps-dementia

"Our top #media organizations can't be bothered to do the serious work of covering #politics, preferring horse races, false balance, and #trivia. If they ever say the just don't have the resources to do things in depth, laugh in their faces. Their budget for # polls is, seemingly, infinite."
- @dangillmor

https://cornerstone.ghost.io/essentials-september-28-29-2024/

"You hide behind your impotent #FactChecking, never seeing — though frequently warned — that in the ways you debunk their #lies, you spread them, and by pedantically nitpicking the other side in your misguided search for balance you create #FalseEquivalence. This is how they exploit you.

You thus lie to yourselves and the public you serve by refusing to call lies lies, #racism racism, #misogyny misogyny, #authoritarianism authoritarianism, #fascism fascism."
- @jeffjarvis

@br00t4c

>> #Trump - #Vance are doing to #Haitians what the #Israeli #Right has done to #Palestinians -- Demonize a Whole People

#FalseEquivalence

I'm not defending what #Netanyahu has done and continues doing, but #Trump is worse.

#Israel's actions are at least grounded in continued political violence targeting Israeli civilians for nearly 8 decades.

Trump and Vance just demonized legal Haitian immigrants without being provoked — simply on the basis of latter's race and skin color

@Nonilex

>> #Pope Says Both #Trump & #Harris Are ‘Against Life’. He said [#US voters] must choose “lesser of two evils” because “both are against life” — #KamalaHarris for #AbortionRights, & Trump for his #cruelty to #immigrants.

#FalseEquivalence Pope is a dope.

#Harris is not for "murder" by “sending a child away from the womb of the mother".

She is against govt enforcing that decision on ALL women, including cases where life in the womb is no longer viable or is the fruit of poison.

"If voters see Trump as some kind of centrist, that is in no small part because news companies like The New York Times persist in cleaning up his incoherent ramblings, downplaying the threat he poses, and helping him pose as an abortion moderate who just wants to reduce wasteful spending and make government more efficient."

#Trump #media #violence #BothSidesism #FalseEquivalence
/21